ECC 2024 Tutorial: Automatic Control Horizon: Roadmap and Industrial Innovation
We are currently witnessing an evolutionary phase where the complexity of engineering systems is continuously growing and, at the same time, technology is developing towards more digital and data based. These aspects create a major challenge for automatic control to meet the ever-growing stability, performance, safety and reliability requirements. This calls for a new way of looking at those systems and requirements, where multidisciplinary groups of sciences and technologies have to work together to develop new advanced solutions.
Automatic control, as a rigorous discipline that links the abstraction of elegant mathematics with the more concrete aspects of engineering, has a pivotal role in orchestrating the multidisciplinary group to address the societal and technological challenge of our future.
In our session, we will present our newly published book on the subject (Wiley, IEEE Press Series on Control Systems Theory and Applications), and:
- Introduce an innovative framework for bridging the gap between research and industry.
- Discuss real-world industry use-cases and their applications.
- Address challenges highlighted in the IEEE CSS Roadmap 2024.
Agenda
| Topic | Time | Lead Facilitator |
| General Introduction of the session and the Volume Innovation framework | 15' | Prof. Silvia Mastellone |
| Case Study: Robotics and Manufacturing Automation | 20' | Prof. Alisa Rupenyan, Dr. Efe Balta |
| Case Study: Energy & Power Conversion | 20' | Pieder Jörg MSc |
| Introduction of Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Roadmap 2030 | 20' | Dr. Tariq Samad |
| Interactive Wrap up | 45' | Prof. Silvia Mastellone Dr. Tariq Samad Prof. Alisa Rupenyan Pieder Jörg MSc Dr. Efe Balta |
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Silvia Mastellone
Prof. Dr. Silvia Mastellone is Professor for Signals and Systems at the Institute for Electric Power Systems in the School of Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland. She worked as Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Center in Switzerland. She is one of the principal investigators and Equal Opportunity Officer in the NCCR-Automation, and a member of the advisory board for the multiutility company IBB. She currently serves as the VP of Finances for the International Federation of Automatic Control, and as member of the CSS Board of Governors. She is member of the IFAC Industry Committee.
Prof. Dr Alisa Rupenyan
Prof. Dr Alisa Rupenyan holds the endowed professorship in Industrial AI from the Rieter foundation at the ZHAW Centre for AI, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, and specializes in continuous optimization and automation of manufacturing processes and motion systems. Previously, she was group leader for Automation at Inspire (a Swiss institute for research and technology transfer partnering with ETH Zurich) and senior scientist at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. Her research interests include autonomous machines, decision-making in industrial settings, and process control. She is a technical committee member at IEEE-CSS and IEEE-IES, and executive member at the IFAC Industry Committee.
Dr. Tariq Samad
Dr. Tariq Samad is Senior Fellow and Honeywell/W.R. Sweatt Chair in Technology Management/Director of Graduate Studies, M.S. Management of Technology/Adjunct Faculty, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota (USA). Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, Dr. Samad spent 30 years in Honeywell International, retiring as Corporate Fellow. He is the former chairman and current executive member of the IFAC Industry Committee.
Pieder Jörg
Pieder Jörg received his M.Sc degree 1995 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. He joined ABB at Corporate Research in the area of power electronics. In 2002 he joined the business unit Medium Voltage Drives as head of product development. Since 2010 he is focusing on business and technology development for demanding drives applications. He has been involved in various studies and improvement projects involving large VSD driven systems with demanding rotor dynamics. He currently serves as Corporate Executive Engineer in ABB's Motion Service division.
Dr. Alex van Delft
Dr. Alex van Delft is currently working as independent consultant. Until 2020 he was Corporate Manager Process Control for Royal DSM in The Netherlands, the company he joined after obtaining his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology in 1989. From 2010 until 2020 he was also chairman of WIB, the Dutch-Belgian Process Automation end-users Association); He is executive member of the IFAC Industry Committee.
Dr. Efe C. Balta
Dr. Efe C. Balta received the B.S. degree in manufacturing engineering from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, in 2016, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Automatic Control Laboratory (IfA), ETH Zürich between 2021 and 2023. Since September 2023, he has been leading the Control and Automation research group at inspire AG. His research interests include control theory, optimization, statistical learning, robotics, cyber-physical systems, and additive manufacturing.
